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22 Rifle for Christmas
Originally Aired: December 20, 1951 Dragnet #132, "22 Rifle for Christmas," Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero respond to a disturbing case just three days before Christmas. Nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone has vanished from his backyard, and Highland Park Juvenile officers Harry Levinson and Doherty have discovered fresh bloodstains along the walkway behind the family's green stucco home on Collis Avenue. Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime lab also finds a spent .22 caliber shell casing near the rose bushes, adding an ominous element to the boy's disappearance. As the detectives question…
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